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There are 14 peaks over 8000 worldwide. They are all in the mountains of the Himalayas spread over four countries: India, Pakistan, Nepal and China. The first such summit was conquered Annapurna is June 1950 (By Maurice Herzog French)

Update from Jon Krakauer: Andy Harris on the summit of Mt. Everest May 10 1996 at 1:15 PM shortly before everything went bad. We had no idea that those fluffy white clouds in the background were the crowns of huge cumulonimbus clouds boiling upwards to engulf us in a storm of extraordinary violence. Andy a guide employed by Rob Hall started down just after I took this photo but 3 hours later he got a desperate radio call from Rob asking him to climb back up with a bottle of oxygen for a…